Salameno School of American and International Studies (SSAIS)

Assistant Professor of International Studies

Year Joined RCNJ: 2006

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7259
• E-mail: ecastell@ramapo.edu 
• Office: B-236
• Office Hours: M 3:30-4:30 PM; MR 11:15-12:15 PM; Also by appt.

Education:

• B.A. Pomona College
• M.A. John Hopkins University
• M.A. & PhD. Brown University

Courses Offered:

• Introduction to International Studies
• Introduction to Anthropology
• Latin American Culture and Civilization
• Urban Anthropology
• Crossing Borders: Growing Up Latino Politics, Culture
• Identity Food and Culture International Migration
   

Teaching Interests:

• Urban Anthropology
• Political Anthropology
• Anthropology of Europe
• Anthropology of the Americas
• National, Racial and Ethnic Identity
• Migration and Transnationalism
• Latino Studies
• Population and Society
• Anthropological Demography
• Research Methodology
• Anthropological Theory
• Applied Anthropology
• Social Problems
• International Relations

Research Interests:

• Migrant Assimilation and Marginalization
• National Identity, Nationalism
• Ethnicity
• International Migration
• Anthropological Demography
• Politics
• Symbols
• Culture and International Relations
• Food and Identity
• Italy
• Europe
• the United States
• Latin America.

Recent Publications:

• "Food Fights at the EU Table: The Gastronomic Assertion of Italian Distinctiveness." In Consuming Cultures: Food, Drink and Identity in Europe, edited by Thomas M. Wilson. Amsterdam: Rodopi Publishers. (With Sara M. Bergstresser)
• "Migrant Mirrors: The Replication and Reinterpretation of Local and National Ideologies as Strategies of Adaptation by Foreign Immigrants in Bergamo, Italy," American Behavioral Scientist, 50(1): 27-47.
• "CORI News: Food Availability and Choices in East Harlem" Anthropology News October 2009: 65-66 (With Elizabeth Gilmour)